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People are still having sex, and nothing seems to stop them!

Oh yeah, I saw that black mirror episode. Good thing it’s only fiction.

Not sure what you mean. I just saw asterisks.

You know I cannot be the only one that will consciously decide to not buy brands that make intrusive adverts. But, they must also know that. So I can only assume that the majority of people don’t think the same and it’s an overall upside for these annoying ads.

Might be some moobs though.

I’m based in the UK. But my instance only actually has single digits of actual active users. So, it’s not bothering me too much.

The moment I get a letter from OFCOM, or I see they’re enforcing against smaller federated sites, I’ll just remove non login readable capability and make it entirely invite only (which won’t be a problem, the only people joining for ages were bots and when I added the AI blocking/cloudflare protection they’ve stopped coming too). Until then I am assuming they’re going after the actual social media companies.

Hmm, for me I actually do have a lot of time to help people. But what happens is, if you make a suggestion you will so often be shot down by someone that thinks their opinion is fact. It’s the arguing for my point that I don’t have time for.

The effect is the same as bystander effect, because yes. I look at the question, know I could answer it, don’t want to get into the argument that someone else thinks their way is better, so I just assume someone else will take it on.

The real truth is that people don’t want to be that first person that answers, because THEIR answer will be torn apart.

I think the last two are related. With whatever weird carousel fraud is going on between the AI companies and techbro city.

If you want to go super de-centralised. Just remove the internet and go for a mesh network :P

Dystopian? Or just the beta version?

I think there’s two parts to modern electronics that make them hard to repair.

One is indeed planned obsolescence, companies like apple deliberately making things harder to repair. This is easy to solve, but what’s in it for businesses that only exist to make money when the average consumer is happy to suck this crap up?

But there is a non deliberate side. So many things that used to be modules built with discrete components have been moved to a single chip. Radio parts is an example, they used to requir a lot more external discrete parts and you can now get a single chip doing Bluetooth, WiFi etc with minimal external components.

As more goes to a single chip, it’s single expensive parts that can fail rather than what might have been a single capacitor or resistor failing in a larger circuit.

Of course the planned obsolescence uses this by making custom chips that you literally cannot buy if you wanted to. But there is still a legitimate side to this.

My eyesight is shot now. Pretty much all soldering I do with a microscope that has daylight LEDs on anyway.

I don’t know. I feel like I’m more alert and the brain is more active with 4k+ in the day time (on days when there’s low light outside). But in the evening I want it down to 2700k or so, in order to get a proper sleep cycle.

Or, and hear me out. Get one that you can change. On a gloomy day, during the daytime have it at daylight white. In the evening a nice 2700k.

I’m not sure I’ve seen people fired for being too productive directly. It’s absolutely not a metric they care about though. I’ve seen them get rid of people that cost too much not caring how much product knowledge that they couldn’t hand over in any reasonable time with no suitable replacement.

I remember it used to be “Oh, not much in terms of payrises this year. The business isn’t doing so well”. Now they just don’t care enough to even lie to you.

It’s “Another record breaking year, amazing work team, except that team, you’re all redundant now. Also everyone else, sorry only 1% raise left for you from our record breaking year. Also, there’s now a whole team’s worth of work to pick up. Chop chop”

Wait, this wasnt the reason utf8 support was added to most databases?

Going to be honest, with that many records and such a short primary key, she’s running the risk of duplicate key issues.

Yeah but if a normal cable stops the music entirely you clean the contacts or buy a new one and then suddenly it’s back to a perfect reproduction.